MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va. -- Amid waves of bleak economic news, Fred McCardle seems to be a rarity. He is working 60 hours a week, at almost double the pay of his old job, and just bought a $500 flat screen TV. "It's nice to have a little extra money," says the 42-year-old, who quit his job at a concrete company and was hired as a coal miner soon after by Consol Energy Inc. The company is spending $3 million on billboards to attract workers across a swath of Eastern states -- West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky -- and hired...